Front Street Park - Leavenworth, Washington, USA

Leavenworth puts up more than half a million Christmas lights, and it isn’t even a German town. From November 27 to Christmas Eve, the gazebo in Front Street Park, right in front of the camera, hosts choirs, carolers and handbell ringers. The lights stay on from 6 am to 11 pm every day until the end of February.

Leavenworth started out as a railroad and logging town, and by the early 1960s it was close to becoming a ghost town.

Two Seattle businessmen who had bought a struggling cafe nearby pushed for a Bavarian makeover. One of them had seen Bavaria with the Army in World War II, and the mountains around town looked the part.

The town went for it, and to this day new buildings downtown still have to look Bavarian.

Did You Know? Bavaria wasn’t the first choice. Local leaders originally favored a “Gay Nineties” theme, with an 1890s look instead of an Alpine one.

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